The first time

that a certain boy

would tell me

that he loves me,

I had always hoped

it would be

from my first love,

and it did.

My face lit up

as bright as the morning sun,

and my eyes

would begin to sparkle,

like the shooting stars

in the night sky

as they turned into

small crescent moons,

along with a radiant smile

that ran from ear to ear.

It was because

I had believed him.

I had believed every word

that he said.

But,

when this boy says

"I love you,"

he really means,

"I am ready to start getting

incompetent with you

right now."

The words

"I love you,"

were supposed to be

a promise, but he

would turn it

into an excuse.

What's the use of

crying over him now?

He was only a boy then.

He was young and reckless.

Now, he's a man.

It was just too late.

this is another contest entry for 

r i g h t i n t h e f e e l s • a writing contest

-Quote Prompt 12: "Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you."

-Lyric Excerpt Prompt 23: "Am you joking? What am I to you? Am I easy to you? Are you playing with me?"

Result: Finished in the top 6!

new year • new story || a 2015 writing competition

-Quote Prompt 11: "My biggest fault was how I kept forgiving him, even though he didn't deserve it."

-Quote Prompt 17: "Life isn't about the happy ending; it's about the story."

-Quote Prompt 22: "I hope you always find a reason to smile."

i swear, all these contests have great prompts for writing. these are all so good. feel free to enter your own entry/entries, too!

-sweetsonata

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Reviews:

Emmery from Strawmerry's Graphics, Advertisements, and Review Shop: "It's good, really. It's a brief one-shot, but has a lot into it. It's like a written diary of the OC's first love experience and it's really, brilliant."

The Forgotten Phoenix: Review and Advertisment Shop: "I liked the way you incorporated the symbolic symbols into the story and how the meaning changed in the end. It was a little twist in the story that I enjoyed. The poems that you put in between wrapped up each paragraph of Yoomi's story nicely."

Sakura Blossoms Review and Graphic Shop: "This story is well-written and very thought through from beginning to end. I really like how the author has used a variety of words and mixed it up with many emotional words. This story also tells a very important lesson."

Lemon Candy Oneshot Review Shop:  "A love story where love has disentegrated and one decides to finally take a stand and leave is not very original (I'm guilty of writing it too). However, you made the story yours by adding a few new things into the mundane plot. I love the prompts you used and I wish luck to you in the writing contest!"

Colloquial Mini Reviews: The most wonderful element that I found best was that poem. I'm kind of a er for poems, especially meaningful ones, and the fact that the poem has somehow appeared to be simple and straightforward, yet very much meaningful in the story was really superb! Not anyone can pull that off well. Good job!

Forbidden Dreamers: I haven't read much one shots, and if I do, it never really gave me a lesson. So, for me, this was original. I really like how you viewed it in first person and not in third ominiscent. It really gave me the feelings of the main character and I understood how she felt about her first love.

The Casting Director Review Shop: I like how the title ties into the ending. It makes it more impactful, which is why I love, love, love the ending.

[Pay It Forward* Multi Review Shop]:  Again I have to brag about how simple the story is yet it has so much in it. She was reminiscing the feelings and memories from those times, where they’re still gullible and oblivious about the world and that reminded me about those times in school as well. The feeling from the story just oozed out, and I love it, really. I just can’t stop complimenting this story. {Permanently Featured Story!}

IDEAS - EVERYTHING SHOP: I THOUGHT THAT THIS STORY WAS WRITTEN VERY WELL, I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF THOUGHT WAS PUT INTO IT WHICH IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING. I THOUGHT THAT THE CHARACTERS WERE DISTINGUISHABLE AND I LIKE HOW YOU GAVE THEM A PERSONALITY THAT GETS THE READER FAMILIAR WITH THEM AND MAKES THE CHARACTERS MEMORABLE AS WELL, OVER ALL I THOUGHT THIS WAS A GREAT READ! {Featured Story!}

☆STARZ SHOP☆: Can I give 5 Million out of 40? Wow. The plot itself may have been used once too many, but how you attacked the plot was beautiful. You didn't need a huge back story or five chapters of how imperfect the relationship was, but in few words, you described a realistic, yet imaginative story. Wow.

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